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There are a few things I try to caution people away from, assuming that I like them. Joining the military is high on the list. Right now you're young and stupid. I mean no offense by that statement. We ALL start out that way. Luckily, most of us live to outgrow it. I was military. What passed for training was absolutely pathetic, once you got past the physical part. (I'm talking basic AND the skills training.) I've heard it said that the larger the organization, the more stupid BS is built into it. Take it from me, the military is a VERY large organization. At least I was smart enough to join as a reservist. I had the option to go regular if I wanted. The Army certainly made an impression on me. It just wasn't a good one. Needless to say, I didn't go regular. Forget all your romantic notions about serving god and country. You won't be protecting your "country". You'll just be doing whatever the "government" wants. If you can't understand the difference between country and government, sign up. You're good military material. The internet is your friend. I'd invite you to take a good hard look at everything we've done with our military going back to the 1960's. If you do any fighting at all, odds are it will be for oil, major corporations, or just so the military industrial complex can continue to make big money. (After all, there's huge profit to be made in war or any other conflict.) Others can say how proud they are of you. That's their call. But if you're running around the world creating enemies for me, you're no friend of mine. I understand that this post may be abrasive. If anybody wants further clarification, or to debate the issue, I may (or may not) respond. I think I've said everything that needs to be said, and it's based on decades of observation and my own personal experience. YMMV

I'm not advocating it, because that would probably get me into trouble, but vigilante justice is most likely the only chance you have of getting anything out of this that resembles justice. The folks that you are forced to deal with legally, have very little (if any) incentive to do their jobs. They're a lot more concerned about the easy revenue / little work involved situations like seat belt violations and zoning issues. Even the DA only goes after the cases that are getting enough attention that he thinks he/she really has to. Or if it will further their political ambitions. Sad, but true. The exceptions seem to be pretty darn rare.

Depending on what you find when you dig deeper in, you might find something worthwhile in this thread. I'm still happy with the route that I went.

Nice gifts! Is your family looking to adopt? I'm available. I could be your older (but not necessarily more mature) brother!

I enjoy the heck out of this site, and it's my pleasure to be able to give something back. But it wouldn't have happened without the help of Pete and Nick.

If anyone is considering a short-sleeved t-shirt, take a look at: ASIN: B0837L7FS5 25 days left. It's black with dot com on the front. After this one is safe, that just leaves a single zip hoodie that I need to to keep an eye on. Every other design has had at least one sale.

Some of the last hoodie designs that were submitted to Amazon haven't had any sales yet. Amazon gives us a year, and we're down to 20 days at this point. No sales = the design gets pulled from the Amazon catalog. If anybody is considering a zip hoodie, take a look at: ASIN: B081V2HP61 (white logo on the back with no dot com) (purchased) If you're looking for a pull over hoodie, check out: ASIN: B081V2NYX5 (black logo on the front with no dot com) (purchased) ASIN: B081V2HZ1X (white logo on the front with no dot com) (purchased) ASIN: B081TTV7F2 (black logo on the back with no dot com) (safe, I bought one) ASIN: B081TVVYGJ (white logo on the back with no dot com) (safe, I bought one) If it looks like we're getting down to the wire, I'll probably buy one each of whatever hasn't sold, just to keep them live for the membership. But to be honest, I already have enough CC shirts and hoodies to last me for a long time. Don't buy anything you really don't want. But if you were going to make a purchase anyway, be sure to check the above options out.

I wish you luck. I love IH's. In fact, the lady I live with and I owned a total of 11 before we finally decided that it was just too expensive a hobby for us. If I ever win the lottery, I'll have another one though! That one looks pretty rough. I hope you can bring it back, and I hope that you don't end up kicking yourself for thinking this was going to be less expensive than the Comanche's that you were running across. One thing IH's share with Comanches is the addictive quality. Don't say you weren't warned!

Yugo's were also know to have starter issues. But they could be coaxed into working by popping the hood and tapping on the starter. So you could at least in theory be distracted because you are running late, have the hood propped open, alternately tapping on the starter and then running around the car to reach in through the drivers side window to turn the ignition key, and if you had forgotten that it was in gear, eventually launch it across the parking lot while you were running after it in hot pursuit. (Not that such a thing EVER happened to me...I'm just sayin' that it's possible.)

The first thing that ANY prospective juror should do is to educate themselves. I've been supporting the Fully Informed Jury Association for about thirty years. The legal system is more screwed up than you can probably even imagine. Jurors hold a lot more power than they are led to believe. And the powers that be aim to keep it that way! www.fija.org

I hope that you like them! I see a sale come through every so often, but Amazon doesn't tell me who the buyer is. Once in awhile someone will leave a review. That's about the only clue I have.

That started my day with a smile. I'm pretty sure "duck" is the word you had in mind. My sense of humor may be a bit juvenile, but Beavis and Butthead would be proud of me!

I'm a little disappointed that nobody told the OP that the problem was being caused by his grill being upside down.

While I'm not crazy about the Gladiator, if I was in the market for a similar vehicle I'd much rather have that over a Colorado or Ranger. So yeah...I'm a bit jealous!

My suggestion would be to not be in such a hurry to spend the money and time to legally own the name. Unless you have a plan to monetize the domain, it's just speculation as to whether it will ever be worth anything to you or anybody else. My advice would be to just sit on that domain until you come up with a plan for it, or somebody wants to buy it from you. Just my two cents worth. In my particular case, I wanted a "brand" for any apparel designs that I made available on Amazon. I bought "BedfordFallsCollection.com", and the CC apparel that members buy on Amazon are part of the "Bedford Falls Collection" brand. Buying the domain is all the effort that I've put into it so far, and may never do more. Yes, someone could trademark the name. But it would be a pretty stupid business move on their part seeing as how they can't get the .com domain for it.

One of the old DJ5 postals for me. I like my Comanche, but I love my postal. The only thing more fun than driving an old "manual everything" jeep, is adding right-hand drive to the mix.

I'll share a story. I went to Scheels a few years back with my youngest sister, when she was bike shopping. The salesman was nice, and helpful. When she made her choice I pointed out that it didn't have a kickstand. The salesman's nose went up in the air, he did a little sniff, and said "REAL bikes don't have kick stands". My yuppy sister got her $700. plus dollar bike, and I'm still riding my old Jeep branded bike from Walmart. The bike she bought was nice for sure, but I'm pretty sure that mine gets more use! (And when I park it, I have a kick stand.)

It's a shame the OP has a time crunch situation. If I had it tore apart like he has, I'd take the opportunity to swap to an external slave if at all possible.

Sometimes you're better off to just replace all those taillight screws and nuts at the same time. Personally, I'm happy with the ones I picked up from Fastenal.

Yep. His was from a late 80's Buick Regal.

Sexy Sadie. Nice toy, btw!

Amazon's Merch division is coming back on line. Some of our apparel is already showing up as available again. The rest should be showing up soon. We even have a seller on Amazon trying to "copycat" us! It happens from time to time.

That's a mighty fine looking postal you have there!

Does this help?

Gog, that's just another way of saying "Thank you sir! May I have another?"